Our Common Humanity in the Information Age. Principles and Values for Development

Audrey Kitagawa, Spiritual leader and Chair of the NGO Committee on 
Spirituality, Values and Global Concerns 
Audrey Kitagawa was born and raised in Honolulu, Hawaii. She is a cum laude graduate 
of the University of Southern California, and a graduate of Boston College Law School. 
She practiced law in Honolulu for twenty plus years, and at the time of her retirement in 
1996, she had a Martindale -Hubbel AV rating, the highest rating for professional and 
ethical excellence in the legal profession. 
Kitagawa is the head of an international spiritual family bas ed in Hawaii. She is also 
Advisor to the World Federation of United Nations Associations. She serves as a member 
of many advisory boards and councils, including the Toda Institute for Peace and Global 
Policy Research, the Executive Council of the World Commission for Global 
Consciousness and Spirituality, the National Council of Global Action to Prevent War, 
the Executive Council of the Spiritual Caucus at the United Nations, and the World 
Wisdom Council. She is also a co-facilitator of the United Religions Initiative 
Cooperation Circle at the United Nations and sits on the boards of the Apeadu Children's 
Peace Center in Ghana, and the Vermont Peace Academy.
She has published articles in World Affairs: The Journal of International Issues, entitled 
"The Power of Om: Transformation of Consciousness,” and "Practical Spirituality," and 
in Vision In Action magazine, entitled "Globalization and the Common Good: A Call for 
Ethics and Spirituality." A chapter, "Crossing World Views, the Power of Perspective in 
the Hawaii Japanese American Experience," will soon be published in a book about 
multiculturalism, communication, and Asian women. She has written a chapter, 
"Globalization as the Fuel for Religious and Ethnic Conflicts," for a book that will be 
published as part of the culture, religion, and citizenship action research team of the 
GRAD Project (Globalization, Regionalization, and Democratization) of the Toda 
Institute for Peace and Global Policy Research and the University of Hawaii. She has also 
written a chapter, "The U.S. in Foreign Affairs: Source of Global Security, or Source of 
Global Fear?" for a journal that will be published as part of an initiative of the Spark M. 
Matsunaga Peace Institute and the Toda Institute.